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Falling into a unique category of literature, A Bridge to Nowhere is an award-winning work of creative non-fiction, or as some have called it, creative fiction. It wraps a fictional story around time-honored moral teaching.
Told against the backdrop of a Friday night in a nightclub high above one of America's great cities, A Bridge to Nowhere is a cautionary tale that ricochets from the antics of youth to the sobering realities of adult life. Its story, and its wisdom, is grounded in the life of a man known to his friends as "Uncle" Joey - a man who spent far too long wandering the back roads of pop culture ... a man who has finally come to appreciate that wisdom after ignoring it for far too long.
A middle aged, slightly balding lifelong bachelor, Joey finds himself waiting for his twin nephews to join him for dinner. About to graduate from the same college their uncle attended, they are in town for a wedding. The boys lost their dad when they were little, and Joey tried to step in and fill that void in their lives. An incorrigible playboy at the time, Joey's efforts were dubious at best. But having matured and at last come to a place of respectability in life, Joey wants to impart a last bit of "fatherly" wisdom before the lads take their own place in the world.
A Bridge to Nowhere rests its wisdom on the foundation on which all Judeo-Christian moral teaching sits; that of the dignity of man and woman as reflected in the fact that they are made in the image and likeness of God. Its message calls upon all men, not only the young, to find the strength, self-respect, and self-esteem inherent within ... to respect it ... and to act on it. Sound a bit dull or tedious? Relax, there's no ponderous sermon or heavy-handed lecture. Joey's story has the grace to be light, funny, and at times even a little sad ... it can tickle a funny bone and jerk a tear.
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